Recent reading

I am currently wondering what books should I read. Any recommendations?

My last book was Good Omens, a book written by both Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. It is a comedy about the apocalypse. I rather like how the main characters, an angel and demon, often have trouble telling the difference between good and evil, because the line is so blurry. Also, the humans are better at their jobs than they are. Also, one of the horsemen of the apocalypse runs a fast food chain--guess which one. Great book, in many respects.

Previous to Good Omens, I read The Color of Magic and Guards, Guards!, both Terry Pratchett Discworld novels. I was trying to get into Discworld, but I don't feel too enthusiastic about it.

I was told that Terry Pratchett is similar to Douglas Adams, only more prolific. Douglas Adams is my favorite author, but his problem is that he's dead. As if that weren't bad enough, he also writes extremely slowly. But I am finding similarities in writing style between Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams. I love Douglas Adams' writing style, because it's hilarious all by itself, just the way he describes things. In his descriptions of common objects, he always includes contradictions, absurd metaphors, or things that would be impossible to know just from looks, leaving the reader's imagination to try to sort it all out. ("...four windows set in the front of a size and proportion which more or less exactly failed to please the eye"--page 1, H2G2) Terry Pratchett is a bit similar in this respect. But for whatever reason, I'm just not laughing as much. I am a little disappointed.

Maybe I am reading the wrong books. Are his later novels better? Or should I go for something completely different?

You may have gathered--correctly--that I like books that are funny.